Term Papers on In Civil Disobedience

Term Paper Title	In Civil Disobedience
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In Civil Disobedience

“In Civil Disobedience”, Henry David Thoreau, stresses on the true
importance of the individual and his power to alter governmental injustices.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, places strong
emphasis on direct action to impose reform, while promoting the equalization
of rights for all individuals. Both authors incorporate strong rhetorical
strategies that appeal to the lectors, such as ethos and pathos. However,
King’s piece exalts effectively due to the genuine modesty he portrays a
quality Thoreau lacks provoking a reverse reaction than the one desired.

The ability to strike an individual with emotion is the ability to detect
that debile section of the human and touch the true depths of their natural
sentiments. King utilizes emotion in a tremendous way by quoting the Bible
and mentioning Christ’s doings. He takes in consideration that the
components of his audience are clergymen that assumingly have a profound
study of the Bible and intends to persuade them with this knowledge
tactically. When he incorporates passages of the Bible, he compares them to
actions he has or will act upon in good faith: “Like Paul, I must constantly
respond to the Macedonian call for aid”. Here King compares his predicating
of freedom with that of the Apostle Paul’s of the gospel. King later uses a
different form of emotional appeal when he speaks of his personal encounters
with racism, quoting his five year old son with an ingenuous question:
“Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?”. With statements
such as these, King places the reader in a small area of his life, stating
events he has lived and sensed, enabling the piece to penetrate further
within its lectors.

Thoreau possesses a very dry emotional appeal in his piece because of his
lack of modesty, that almost makes his statements and remarks seem despotic.
However, the emotional appeal, although found vaguely within his writing and
somewhat connected to ethical appeal, is existent within the piece: “The
best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to
carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor.” Thoreau here
radiates emotion while connecting morality; he is inviting the audience to
be humble and not allow the power of ambition consume and morph that simple
way of life. Later on, he supports and advances his thought with a Biblical
quotation: “Render therefore to Caesar that...

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